"Susan Howatch has surpassed herself. This is a mighty book." Orlando Tribune

The Rich Are Different is the story of Dinah Slade, a young Englishwoman of immense vitality and great sensual power, whose life, loves, and fierce ambition become intertwined with the fate of a great American banking family.

When Paul Van Zale, a handsome, patrician, and powerful American banker, meets Dinah Slade in London, he commits the imprudence of falling in love with her.

When Dinah follows him to his world, she is caught up in the complex currents of Pauls life. She meets a group of people who present new challenges for her. Among the new acquaintances is Pauls wife with whom, much to Dinahs shock and dismay, Paul manages an almost perfect marriage. Their lives are intertwoven with such mastery that listeners will be captivated by The Rich Are Different from the very first word until the astonishing climax.

The Author:

Susan Howatch was born in England in 1940. She received a law degree from the University of London and later spent eleven years in America where she married and had a daughter. After four years in Ireland she returned to England in 1980, and in 1984 she began work on her current series of novels in Salisbury, her fictional Starbridge, where her home overlooked the cathedral.

The Narrator:

Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.